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ALA’s tool to make it just a bit easier to figure out when Permission is needed
Guy Davenport
I can’t recall at whose behest I ordered The Geography of the Imagination, but I did and it came and I’ve been nibbling at it for a week or so now. Quite a few memorable bits of erudition and copious novel linkages of things I only sort-of know about, but tonight I was brought up short by one sentence:
One suspects that Thoreau would have married a woodchuck or a raccoon, if the biology of the union could have been arranged… (pg 71)
links for 2008-07-18
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New Yorker (“Goal is to see if it’s possible to make a universally offensive cover out of this wishy washy half-satire”) and moooore. “This website proudly digs up, restores, and exhibits some of the rarest political ephemera you will ever see…”
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from Ghosts of Alexander. More here than I can readily assimilate, and greater clarity than almost anything else I’ve seen on the Other Catastrope
links for 2008-07-17
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The center-parting? You decide…
links for 2008-07-16
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from BibliOdyssey, a wonderful collection
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via Language Log, and bloody brilliant at that
links for 2008-07-15
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“…looks for kml files in the web with Google AJAX Search AP… Parses the name of the kml files with a little php code… Shows the kml file content in map with Google Maps API.”
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from bighappyfunhouse
links for 2008-07-14
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Excavated Shellac’s tastes are a lot like mine
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“Scratchy old Chinese records” …gotta luvvit
links for 2008-07-12
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from Fafblog, and makes more sense than most…
links for 2008-07-11
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Tech Basketball: 1920 from Shorpy (as usual, there may be more than one)
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via new discovery Dumneazu (“Ethnomusicological Eating East of Everywhere”, MY kind of blog…). Koyuncu has one of the more memorable noses, a Laz masterpiece
links for 2008-07-09
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“…a staggering feature set for both end users and forward-looking developers…”
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via Bryan Alexander’s Infocult. Take me back to 1976… please